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I don't mind a mile or two in ski boots, I've done far worse before. But I think I would rather carry my boots on my back when faced with the number of log traverses the Heliotrope trail currently has. Mud and rocks I can handle, but when balanced above a roaring river on a narrow log, I want something with a flexible sole.
On the other hand, my Soloman trail running shoes are pretty much built for that type of trail, and extremely lightweight, so it's reall...
On the other hand, my Soloman trail running shoes are pretty much built for that type of trail, and extremely lightweight, so it's reall...
I was wondering about Diamond myself. Looking at the Bachelor webcam today though, it was pretty discouraging, as there's been a huge meltoff in the last week or so. Not sure on Snowdome, but came across this link from Cascade Climbers indicating that as of last week there were fallen trees blocking the road about 1/2 way to Cloudcap........
http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=816320#Post816320
http://cascadeclimbers.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=816320#Post816320
For all my approaches up the Carbon, I was always farther west from lower on the glacier. It gets steeper and has some rolling icefalls just below WW and LR. If possible, my guess is that you may have had an easier time getting over there by traversing across the Carbon Glacier from Curtis Ridge at a lower elevation, which would also be less exposed to bombs from above. Of course, I wasn't there and haven't seen the Carbon this year; that's just my guess.
Its interesting that there is so much snow there and so little at Sunrise
I agree. Were the winds this winter such that there was a much stronger rain shadow effect over the NE side? What I could see of the Sunrise area did indeed look very bare, as did lower Curtis Ridge.
...chopper from picking up an injured climber off Rainier
On Wed, when I was on the Russell Glacier, a military-type...
Yea, that was the highpoint we achieved in the dark, we tried to go further to the west - to the climbers right of the ridge, but a massive crevasse spanned the entire upper glacier as far as we could tell, we worked our way up to it, constantly looking for a way across, I suppose the real crossing is lower and to the right on the glacier - before the roll, but sunlight revealed that way to be fairly broken too.
We did hear a full on Ice lanch sometime around midnight - sounds like it...
We did hear a full on Ice lanch sometime around midnight - sounds like it...
I skied the Flett Headwall and Spray Park last year on the 4th of July but the coverage looks much better this year. It would sure be nice if they would finish plowing the road. Its interesting that there is so much snow there and so little at Sunrise. Good trip and great report.
Good spot for serac-watching. ???
Nice work guys. Hopefully we can hook up soon -- been back east. Evan and I, along with another friend, skied off the summit two weeks and a day ago. Apparently far better coverage, with most of the rock still covered by then recent snow. We climbed up a narrow chute climber's right of the wide old chute, avoiding the knife edge. The descent was a bit sketch in the 50 + degree chute, so it was more a 50 ft somewhat disconcerting edge step down the first forty f...
Missed this way back when. Strong work/lucky you! :).
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and the only ski tracks we saw were from last weekend.
Some of those tracks could have been ours from Tuesday. In fact we saw tracks that were likely put down by Stewie and Scotsman the week before. I am glad you had snow conditions as good as we did. Still wonder why the Bagley Lakes area is so bad.
Nice photos, I wish you photos...
Here are some of my photos... Between Jeff_s and I we took so many that I couldn't hope to share them all, but I've uploaded the best 70 to the web. You can see them here (high-res versions may not finish uploading for a few hours)
Some of the highlights:
Some of the highlights:
